Muscat Daily Columnist

Nick Pattison has been in Oman for 16 years. Retired from Shell, he is a former management consultant and is on the board of several companies. He specialises in board governance, organisation structure and strategy development.

In my previous article I was discussing what necessary conditions had to exist for a company to be a leader. Of course a company is not human: it is composed of people. It takes its direction from the man or woman at the top.